The legacy of Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney

A funeral for the late Irish Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney has been held in Donnybrook, outside of Dublin. Hundreds of people attended the funeral for the poet who died on Friday aged 74. Heaney was often described as the most important Irish poet since Yeats. His first collection of poetry Death of Naturalist was published in 1966, he published another 12 collections across his career and penned such famous poems as Digging, Mid-Term Break, Blackberry Picking, The Tollund Man, and Strange Fruit. His last collection Human Chain, was published in 2010, a few years after he suffered a major stroke. So what place did Seamus Heaney command not just in Irish letters but Irish culture as well?